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Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 39

18 Feb 202225 Feb 2022
Last week I shared my insights from reading through my fourth draft. The main takeaway was that my middle act is struggling more than any other. Things just sort of…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 38

11 Feb 202218 Feb 2022
Last week I posted the entirety of my fourth draft for The Storm. Since that time, I have gone through the draft, marking obvious changes and getting a feel for…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 37

28 Jan 20224 Feb 2022
Well, here I am, four drafts into this project. I'm hoping that by the end of this process I'll have an understanding for how many drafts it takes for me…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 36

21 Jan 202228 Jan 2022
Here we are, about to conclude the fourth draft for this story! I've become very familiar with the story of Oscar and Harry, and I'm hoping that I'm closer to…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 35

14 Jan 202221 Jan 2022
I'm not quite to the end of this draft but getting very near. Today I'll be covering the climax of the story, and then next week I'll do the conclusion.…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 34

31 Dec 20217 Jan 2022
Only a few weeks until I'm done with this, the fourth draft of The Storm. I'm now coming into the climax of the story, which I've generally considered to be…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 33

24 Dec 20211 Jan 2022
Last week I came into a more uncertain part of this story. I'm still having questions about some of the core plot points here in the middle, and I'm trying…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 32

17 Dec 2021
I started making some significant changes to The Storm last week, throwing out and replacing entire sections. When I took a look at last week's work, I realized that there…
Improving Technique

Revising The Storm- Week 31

10 Dec 202114 Dec 2021
You might have noticed last Friday that instead of continuing my revision of The Storm, I gave the monthly update on my novel, the reason being that I have made…

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